Anagrams of: PLONGS_

• a common venereal disease caused by the treponema pallidum spirochete; symptoms change through progressive stages; can be congenital (transmitted through the placenta)

• a contagious disease characterized by purulent skin eruptions that may leave pock marks

• easily squashed; resembling a sponge in having soft porous texture and compressibility

• like a sponge in being able to absorb liquids and yield it back when compressed

• a sharp change in direction

• a slow pace of running

• a slight push or shake

• continue talking or writing in a desultory manner

• even up the edges of a stack of paper, in printing

• run for exercise

• run at a moderately swift pace

• give a slight push to

• stimulate to remember

• a cheap wine of inferior quality

• the noise of something dropping (as into liquid)

• set (something or oneself) down with or as if with a noise

• a sharp change in direction

• a slow pace of running

• a slight push or shake

• continue talking or writing in a desultory manner

• even up the edges of a stack of paper, in printing

• run for exercise

• run at a moderately swift pace

• give a slight push to

• stimulate to remember

• a cheap wine of inferior quality

• the noise of something dropping (as into liquid)

• set (something or oneself) down with or as if with a noise

• A knob, usually ornamental

• a tower for guiding pilots or marking the turning point in a race

• a large vertical steel tower supporting high-tension power lines

• A canal on the central plain of Thailand.